From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture
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Photo review: Composition in print
From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture
Photo review: Composition in print
Well, while it's interesting to look at standalone photographs, it's equally as important and interesting to look at photographs together, to see how they relate to each other compositionally. You know, a lot of times when you do work for a client, they use more than one photograph. So learning how to fit different photographs together can really affect some of your compositional decisions when you're out in the field making those images. So the photographs that we are going to look at are bound together in this book. They are made for a commercial client. What's interesting about this book is you will see these set of photographs and we'll talk about their composition and how they relate to each other in this context. So let's go ahead and take a look at this book. In the first photograph, we're going to see a picture of that board. Now I am trying to create an image compositionally that communicates a bit about the surfer and the brand. So I have the surfboard in focus. He is out of…